2 – Bristol Motor Speedway was built on the site of a former dairy farm.

3 – After a little more than a year of construction, at a cost of more than $600,000, the original BristolInternational Speedway opened July 27, 1961 for four days of racing. DeWayne Louis "Tiny" Lund, a rather large gladiator despite his ironic moniker, was the first on the track.